Olivier Assayas’ intimate story of family growing up and apart plays like a miniature, a small film of small dramas in the scope of large lives.
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‘Carlos’ – The making of a terrorist superstar on The Criterion Channel
Carlos (2010), Olivier Assayas’ epic account of the life and myth of real-life terrorist Carlos the Jackal, is a mesmerizing portrait of a committed activist who transforms himself into a media-hungry rock star of an international terrorist. Édgar Ramírez plays Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka Carlos the Jackal (a name he appropriates from a Fredrick Forsythe […]